Crossing the Rhine; Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944-1945--The Greatest Airborne Battles in History
New York, N.Y. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008. First American Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxviii, [2], 415, [1] pages. Illustrations. Minor red soiling at front edge. Includes Acknowledgments, 10 black and white maps, Introduction, Dramatis Personae, and Prologue. Topics covered include The Strategy of Exploitation, The Allies: 25 August-17 September 1944; Withdrawal: The Germans: 25 August - 17 September 1944; Chasing the Dream: Airborne Warfare and its Soldiers: The Birth of Parachuting to Summer 1944; Stitching things Together: Planning, 10-17 September 1944; Jumping the Rhine (1), Operation Market Garden: 17-18 September 1944; Perimeters, Operation Market Garden: 19-21 September 1944; Touching the Rhine, Operation Market Garden: 21-26 September 1944; Riposte, The Ardennes and Advance to the Rhine, October 1944-March 1945; The Deluge, Planning and Launching Plunder Variety, 10-24 March 1945; and Jumping the Rhine (II), Operation Varsity: 24-28 March 1945. Lloyd Clark is a senior academic in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Professorial Research Fellow in War Studies, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham. One of the UK’s leading military historians, he is the author of several books, including The Battle of the Tanks, Crossing the Rhine, and Anzio. More